TIME'S ARCHIVES

Following up on this story, I sent an e-mail to Time to see what explanation they had for the disappearing Scowcroft and Bush article. Here's the response I got back, today:

Dear Reader,

Unfortunately, we had to take the story down when we implemented our paid archive last year. Since it was not written by a member of the TIME staff, we did not have the rights to sell it online. You can call our Tampa office at 1-800-843-8463 to get a paper reprint of the article or get it at a library that has the TIME collection.

Sorry we can't be more help,

-TIME.com

I don't know how Time's (or anyone else's) online rights work, but now I have an incentive to find out. Any thoughts?

UPDATE: Lawrence Solum sent me a kind e-mail to refer me to the landmark Supreme Court decision in New York Times v. Tasini (2001), which created Time's problem here. Interesting. No oddness here, then, as I had initially thought might be the case. A much more sensible explanation than any conspiracy theory, I'll admit.